27 Replies to “The World Is Being Run By People With Heated Garages”

  1. As long as it remains safe, why not. I just don’t want to see my mother break a hip on a public sidewalk because some car-plugging whiner won’t park their car on their own property for whatever reason they’ll come up with.

  3. Alan you just don’t give up do you? How many times do you need to be pounded into the pavement with your baloney stories?
    Your hubris will haunt you.

  4. Alan, is it safe for your mother with the brittle hip(s) to be out by herself in the type of weather reequiring vehicles to be plugged in?
    This was never about safety. It was always about the nanny state knowing what is best for us.

  5. It just makes sense. The sidewalks have overgrown trees with branches at eye level so why can’t a cord go above a sidewalk? If the sucker is down with no kinks sticking up I don’t see a problem other than whiners and we should just stop listening to them and vote out people that do.

  7. I’m happy for Bob Klassen, but good lord, the Global reporter who wrote that story is barely literate. “Ammend”? “Klassen argued he had no _chance_ but to run the cord … ” And their web server must be running short of pronouns and definite articles.
    No editors? No sense of embarrassment? Or no clue?

  8. Do you think that in the article they may have meant “carte blanche” rather than “card blanche”?

  9. Step 1: Find a global warming believer
    Step 2: Put them on a stationary bicycle outside that has an electric generator attached to it
    Step 3: Plug said electric generator into car without cord crossing side walk
    Step 4: Have said global warming believer peddle through the night in -25 C to keep Mr. Klassen’s engine block warm

  11. @the bear: thanks for the insults. I shouldn’t post something you won’t agree with, silly me, what was I thinking. Merry Christmas.

  12. “Your hubris will haunt you”.
    Ooooo, spooky. Now I’m afraid. Is the guy gonna (try to) stangle me with an electric cord if I post an opinion he doesn’t like?

  14. Alan, do you think we forgot all that crap you wrote on the original thread? The world doesn’t start from zero every morning.
    Its a retarded law, written by retarded people, and about time somebody called them on it. I hope he gets his $60 bucks back out of the sonsabitches too.

  15. I suspect that it was a mail carrier that complained in the first place and I will offer up a prediction: If Klassen is allowed to continue running his extension cord across the sidewalk, Canada Post will cease delivery of mail to the entire neighbourhood. It’s easier to disturb an entire city block than disgruntle a single mail carrier.

  16. The Phantom: I think you confuse me with someone else (would it be Allan, with two “l”s?). Quite honestly, I don’t understand what “crap” you are talking about, and what justifies you and the other short guy, errr, fuse, for all the aggressiveness you are displaying. What the heck is wrong with you? Try and curb your frustration with life, brother.

  17. Alansaid: “Quite honestly, I don’t understand what “crap” you are talking about…”
    Allow me to refresh your memory.
    Previous thread, you said: “As did many commenters, I will have to side with the City on this one. If one can’t understand the rationale of the no-cord-accross bylaw, maybe it’s their brains they should jump.”
    Then there was “Yeah. Let’s repeal all the bylaws, especially the ones that deal with safety issues. Otherwise, those friggin commies will keep controlling our lives with the help of their bureaucrats. Gee.”
    Allan with two Ls also said a bunch of stupid crap.
    Welcome to the Internet Age, where stupid crap you say lives forever.

  18. Yes, indeed those bright yellow / orange cords are hard to against a white background aren’t they.

  20. bobc has nailed it. Get those cords up off the sidewalk or get used to picking up your mail downtown.

  21. Sounds like there has been an outbreak of sweet reason at Regina City Hall.
    Now if only it could break out here.
    Extension cords lying on a sidewalk are definitely a tripping hazard, even if you can make them lie flat, which is damn near impossible when it’s -30 and the vinyl jacket is stiffer than a wedding p***k. And don’t forget those cords could be a hazard to YOU, and your snow blower, if, out of the kindness of your heart, you took it upon yourself to plow the sidewalk in front of your neighbour’s house, and got the extension cord all wound up in the auger. The cord you didn’t see because it was completely covered in that big dump of fresh snow?
    Allowing the cords to pass overhead, with decent overhead clearance, is a sane compromise, and won’t be a burden on anyone with enough strength to operate an automobile. Might even create an opportunity for neighborhood handymen to make a buck or two building cord gallows for their lazier neighbours.

  22. the other option would be a pipe under the sidewalk, but whoever thinks of digging one of those when the ground isn’t frozen?

  25. Good question. Lol.
    Apparently Bob was on his way to the Liberal Christmas party. In a possibly related development: Unconfirmed reports indicate a slightly tipsy John McCallum was earlier seen running an extension cord from the lobby of the Crowne Plaza Hotel to his Chevy Volt parked about a block away.

  26. Ammend? Is that proper Queen’s English or an illiterate journalist? I have to admit I misspelled that word for many years. But I didn’t write for a living back then.
    Tripping hazard, indeed!
    Are there no rocks or sidewalk cracks or curbs without wheelchair ramps anywhere within a quarter mile of that cord which would send a near invalid tumbling to the ground?
    “I’ve fallen, and I can’t get up!”
    If you are unable to step over an electrical cord, you’re unable to leave your house for a walk.
    I don’t buy the “covered in snow” BS. If you’re walking through powder, you need to expect ANYTHING under the snow. If it’s hard pack, there are ice ridges deeper than any power cord.
    San Francisco has a new breed of graffiti artists – city workers. They are spreading across the city like a virus, spray painting white dots on sections of sidewalk with cracks in it.
    Although the CITY owns the sidewalks and governs all their uses, the HOMEOWNERS are responsible for repairing them. A crack only 1/8th of an inch wide is enough to get your sidewalk designated for mandatory repair.
    And, of course, the city charges the owner for the PERMIT to repair the sidewalk on top of the cost of repairs.
    Owners of corner lots might have over a thousand square feet of sidewalk to repair.

  27. I attended U of S (about 40 years ago), people avoided creating a tripping hazard with extension cords by erecting frames to extend the cords OVER the sidewalks to their cars, 7 feet above the walking surface.
    Simple.

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